Shapiro Foundation Grants

Shapiro Foundation Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Shapiro Foundation
Last Updated: November 24, 2025

Summary

The Shapiro Foundation Grants, led by Ed and Barbara Shapiro, focus on addressing urgent needs of vulnerable refugee families in Greater Boston. Since 2016, they have fostered partnerships with NGOs and government agencies to provide essential services like shelter and education while tackling systemic issues in refugee resettlement. Their commitment stems from a personal dedication to humanitarian efforts, ensuring that both immediate and structural challenges are effectively addressed.

Overview

Shapiro Foundation Grants We are Ed & Barbara Shapiro, and along with our two young-adult children, we make up The Shapiro Family. Our philanthropic work through the Foundation is an incredible labor of love and each one of us invests considerable time into the meaningful projects that we get involved with. 2016 marked a turning point for our Foundation. Ed and Barbara led a successful community-wide effort--including local, regional and national partners—to sponsor refugee families being resettled in Greater Boston. This program convinced Ed to start his next chapter, retiring from his 27-year investment management career in order to devote himself full-time to tackling the global refugee crisis. How We Partner We see our work following along a continuum of serving immediate needs of the most vulnerable refugees and solving complex, structural problems in the resettlement system. Those are two decidedly critical roles, and each context presents a different mix of the two. Put simply, we feel compelled to serve where we identify critical gaps in provisioning for the most pressing needs such as shelter, food, water and education. We attempt to solve when we identify opportunities to address structural gaps in refugee program (such as resettlement).

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Our Foundation seeks to be the most collaborative, nimble and forward-thinking partner to great NGOs (large, medium and small). governments and agencies